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Turpin Cares Recap 2021
Back in December 2015, a few of us at Turpin Communication, along with a few friends, assembled 10 care packages for homeless people in Chicago. Each package included a few ready-to-eat food items and a hand-knit hat and scarf. We [...]
Should You Practice or Rehearse for Your Next Business Presentation?
Greg, Turpin Communication’s VP, has written a couple of great blog posts on preparing yourself to deliver presentations and training sessions. Don’t Overlook These Steps When Preparing Your Presentation Dry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World [...]
The Masked Presenter: Challenges of Being Live and In Person
In addition to being a Turpin trainer and coach, I also teach at a couple of different colleges in the Chicago area, and I was asked to teach a class just before the start of the semester—in person. I was [...]
What People Get Wrong About Executive Presence
What We Assume An episode of This American Life from several years ago featured “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap, the CEO who was brought in to restore the Sunbeam corporation back to profitability in the 1990s. While he’s now on several “Worst [...]
Managing Conflict in Virtual Meetings
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual meeting and there is a conflict, argument, etc., how does one handle that as a [...]
Returning to the Office: the importance of Emotional Intelligence in meetings
A recent article at trainingindustry.com has us thinking about the importance of emotional intelligence, or EQ, as US businesses start to return to in-person work. Of course, EQ and its component parts—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills—have been considered [...]
Leadership That Fosters Successful Hybrid Meetings
In other blog posts, we’ve been talking about hybrid meetings: how to lead them successfully, how to practice good participation behaviors, and even how to dress and set up your space to look professional on Zoom. This led us to [...]
Shaping Employees’ Soft Skills Through Tailored Onboarding
We've previously talked about the crisis in soft skills in corporate America—clear communication, empathic audience analysis, effective meeting skills, and the like. What we're hearing is that even new hires who have a natural instinct for soft skills, especially [...]
Presenting at Conferences to People You Don’t Know
If the audience for your business presentations is usually the same group of people—your internal team or a well-known client group—your assessment of them can become pretty instinctive and even subconscious. You share a common working language, and you know [...]
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